all you are is mean

 

You, with your words like knives -

        OK, you know the song.

On You Tube, video titled:

Taylor Swift - Mean (Taylor's Version) (Lyric Video)

uploader / channel:  Taylor Swift

...and all you're ever gonna be is mean...

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Oklahoma City looks mighty pretty

 

Well, if you - ever plan to motor West,

Jack, take my way,

That's the highway that's the best

Get your kicks -

On Route Sixty-Six

Well it winds - from Chicago to L.A.

More than two thousand miles all the way

Get your kicks - on Route 66

Now, you go through St. Louis

Joplin, Missouri

And Oklahoma City looks mighty pretty

You'll see Amarillo

Gallup, New Mexico

Flagstaff, Arizona

Don't forget Winona

Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino -

Won't you - get hip to this timely tip?

When you take that California trip

Get your kicks on Route 66...

--------------------- On You Tube, the video titled:

The Rolling Stones - Route 66  1964 (best sound)

uploader / channel:  Anthony R.

and play.

        A little of a Keith Richards interview, at the start, then the song.  You can hear a 1964 audience welcome the band.

(There are other videos, too, by the Stones and by other artists.  The song has been covered a lot.  So good.  Take your pick.)

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{"Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" - written by American songwriter Bobby Troup.  Composed in 1946}

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rollin' on the river

 

John Fogerty, the man who wrote the song "Proud Mary"

On You Tube, go to the video titled

Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary live on Italian TV 1971

uploader /channel:  Storchengerippe

...and play!

Ike Turner, the musician who created the new arrangement of the song "Proud Mary"

..."two - three - four...!!..."

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he asks you with a grin, if you're havin' a good time

 ...I ain't gonna work for Maggie's pa no more

I ain't gonna work for Maggie's pa no more -

Well, he puts his cigar - out in your face just for kicks

His bedroom window, it is made out of bricks

The National Guard - stands around his door --

Oh! - I ain't gonna work for Maggie's pa no more...

On You Tube, the video titled:

Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm (Official Audio)

uploader / channel:  Bob Dylan

Listen and enjoy, today, the day before Thanksgiving.

I am thankful for the music of Bob Dylan.

I'm thankful for Bob.

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now I have a hammer, and I've got a bell...

 on You Tube, video titled:

Peter, Paul and Mary - If I Had A Hammer (1963 performance)

uploader / channel:  Johns1948Ten

It's like a hurricane of song on your mind...

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let it get good now

 On You Tube, go to this video:

Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife (1970)

uploader / channel:  Oldies Zone

        and watch.

        I know I recently "played" this song here on this blog, but we're playing it again because it's a live performance.

When the song starts to build, in the early part, he tosses off an aside:  "Aaaah, let it get good now..."

At 1:17 he does a little moonwalk step - also an "aside"...

Celebrating Thanksgiving Week with music that I adore.

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ok, wait a minute

 Something I took from watching the Netflix documentary about Martha Stewart was that when she took some of her ideas to big companies, wanting them to invest in her enterprise, she was turned down.

Conde Nast; TIME Inc. - and then eventually TIME did decide to back her project - I didn't memorize all the details... but the point that stayed with me was, she did not get an automatic "Yes."

I live with a fear that when I try to get published, I will get the same result as I got with writing screenplays - no one wants what you have, and they don't even read it.

Rejection.

Blah-blah-blah.

Right?

        But look at Martha Stewart, how successful she is.  And she did not let her enthusiasm be dampened by rejection.

I guess before I watched the documentary, it had never occurred to me that Martha Stewart would have ever been turned down for anything, in the business world.

I live with fear and doubt, but my enthusiasm is not dampened.

I guess the executives in big companies who have the power to say Yes or No to investing in projects and enterprises live with fear, too.  Repercussions on them may be unpleasant if they say Yes to something and it loses money.

If they say No - poof! - like magic, No Repercussions.

"No" is the safe choice.

(Conde Nast)

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